At the entrance of the living room of nearly 200 square meters, there is a statue of a god nearly one meter high, carved from a single piece of huanghuali wood. The statue wears a crown on its head, holds a lantern, and wears a yellow robe. Its face is solemn but compassionate.

Right above the statue is a twenty-four-character Taoist slogan made of pure gold, which reads: Fudou Zhaoxiao, pure spirit, Yingfuji, protect the country, shelter the people, wonderful spirit, Zhaoying Hongren, Puji Tianfei.

Chen Zhen lit a stick of incense, raised it high above his head, and muttered with great piety, "Disciple Chen Zhen, thank you very much for your kindness. I am grateful for Mazu's blessings over the years. I will bear this in mind and ask Concubine Tian to continue to protect my Chen family.

To protect the legacy left by the old man, our Chen family will serve you sincerely from generation to generation every morning and evening."

Chen Zhen put on the incense, knelt on the futon, and kowtowed three times with great piety.

In the center of the hall, on a three-meter-long white jade table, a multi-masted flat-bottomed pointed sailboat model of the same length as the white jade table is extremely dazzling.

The Chen family is a native of Donghai. Like most people born and raised in Donghai, their ancestors were fishermen. Their ancestors have relied on the sea for generations, and they have a deep understanding of the sea.

In Chen Zhen's father's generation, ocean transportation began. At that time, private parties were not allowed to get involved in ocean transportation. Chen Zhen's father just carried the risk of losing his head and transported it secretly. To put it bluntly, it was smuggling.

At that time, there was an acute shortage of domestic goods, and supply was always less than demand. It was at that time that the Chen family accumulated their first pot of gold. Marx said that if there was 100% profit, the capitalists would take risks; if there was 200%

If there is a profit of 300%, the capitalists will despise the law; if there is a profit of 300%, then the capitalists will trample on everything in the world!

The success of the Chen family perfectly illustrates the nature of capitalists. Of course, at that time, the Chen family was not the only one doing this brain-destroying work. It was just that everyone else had indeed lost their heads. Only a few people laughed and said in the end, the Chen family was like this

One of the few.

With the spring breeze of reform and opening up, the old man of the Chen family keenly smelled the smell of money. The first pot of gold earned from smuggling came in handy. When the direction of the wind was still unclear, he decisively made a bet and established the East China Sea First...

An ocean shipping company transformed from a smuggler into one of the first private entrepreneurs to try new things.

With the wisdom that the old man of the Chen family could gain a lifetime of wisdom even after nine deaths, he has been out of control. After more than 20 years of business mergers and acquisitions, he has successfully become the shipping king of the East China Sea.

Until his death, the position of the shipping king was still passed on to his son Chen Zhen.

It is difficult to start a business, and it is even harder to keep a business. After Chen Zhen took over Sino-Ocean, he was on pins and needles every day. Times are different, and every era has his mission. The economic development in the past few years has been dazzling, not only for him, but also for many big guys in traditional industries.

I can't understand it. I don't know what will happen next moment.

For example, the Hai family, the Zeng family, the Meng family, and the Hao family. In the past, any of these families had to bow their heads in front of the Chen family. Especially the Hai family. When Hai Zhongtian started, he was just an unknown and poor boy. He had been to the Chen family more than once.

The Chen family asked the old man for advice. But now, in the past five years, these families have been on equal footing with the Chen family, and even have the potential to faintly surpass them. How can this keep him from being anxious?

"Finally, go home early, don't think about it, just have a cup of tea in peace." Chen Zhen's wife Fang Yun put the tea on the coffee table.

Chen Zhen rubbed his forehead, smiled, patted his belly as if he had been pregnant for ten months, and sat on the sofa.

"Okay okay".

Chen Zhen took a sip of tea and said, "Yozi hasn't come back yet"?

Mentioning his son, Fang Yun frowned slightly, "Will he come back before one or two in the morning? You two are of the same virtue, but those who don't know better think that I am a widow without a husband or a son."

Chen Zhen smiled apologetically, grabbed Fang Yun's hand, "Oh, thank you for running this family."

Fang Yun pursed his lips, "What's the trouble for me? I have a mansion, a luxury car, gold and silver jewelry, and even a nanny for cooking. I just lack a husband and a son."

"Hehehe," Chen Zhen stroked his wife's hand, which was still so white, tender and silky, "I will wait a few years until Yoko can be on her own, and I will accompany you every day."

Fang Yun rolled his eyes, "Then you should work for a few more years. I don't want Yoko to become the next you."

"Haha, that's Yoko's responsibility, he can't push it away, and he can't push it away."

Fang Yun's eyes were slightly red. Over the years, she had seen with her own eyes how heavy the word "ship king" was, which made her husband's hair turn white and his back hunchback.

"Ah Zhen, we don't have to worry about food or drink now. We have more money than we can use in a lifetime. I don't want to see Yoko living so hard."

Chen Zhen smiled and said, "I don't want to either, but you also know the old man's temper. If the word "ship king" is lost in my hands, what do you think he will do when we meet the old man a hundred years later?"

Fang Yun chuckled, "I will definitely take off your pants and slap your bare butt in front of the Lord of Hell."

The door opened, and Chen Yang's huge body appeared in the living room.

"Hey, you two are so shy. You are already in your fifties and your buttocks are naked."

Fang Yun took his hand out of Chen Zhen's hand and said, "You are tired of living, how dare you make fun of me."

"Hehe", Chen Yang smiled and sat next to Fang Yun, "I am not old, just like an eighteen-year-old girl."

Fang Yun raised his hand to pat Chen Yang's chubby face. His movements were very slow and his hand was even lighter. In fact, when he touched it, it turned into a caress.

Fang Yun knew his husband and son very well. They both came back so early today, so they must have made an appointment to discuss something.

He stood up and said calmly: "You guys talk slowly, I'm going to bed."

Chen Yang smiled and took Fang Yun's hand, "Comrade Fang Yun, it's unethical for you to leave as soon as I come back."

Fang Yun slapped Chen Yang's chubby hand away, "Little slippery man, I have a mahjong appointment tomorrow morning, so I don't bother to pay attention to you two big fat guys."

After Fang Yun left, Chen Zhen turned the tea cup in his hand and glanced at Chen Yang.

"Yoko, it's time for you to lose weight too."

Chen Yang handed Chen Zhen a cigarette, lit it for him, and then lit one himself. The two father and son sat on the sofa and puffed away.

"A Zhen, don't just talk about me, look at your big belly, you're about to give birth."

Chen Zhen looked at his belly and laughed loudly, "No one believes you if you are not born by me."

Chen Yang sighed, "Hey, my mother is so slender and looks like a flower. Why do I look like you? It makes it very difficult for me to pick up girls now."

Chen Zhen smiled and hugged Chen Yang's shoulders, "Don't worry, you see I'm so fat, I've got your mother."

The two fat men were sitting on the sofa, puffing away smoke, and enjoying the rare bond between father and son.

"Let's talk about business," Chen Zhen said first. "You should still get used to the internship at the shipyard."

"Just building a boat can still stump me, a top student in Qinghua University."

Chen Zhen nodded with satisfaction. He was still very confident about his son. Apart from being a little fatter, he was considered the best among his peers in terms of IQ and EQ.

"Hao Youqian treated me to a meal last week. Haha, this rich man, who is usually bold and unrestrained, was as sad as his dead father that day. When we met, he pulled my nose and burst into tears.

Not to mention how awkward it is."

"Hey, so you should be lucky to have given birth to a good son like me, otherwise you will be more sad than if your parents died."

"Hahaha," Chen Zhen laughed loudly and proudly, "It's good to have a good son. Even if it's hard and tiring, there's something to think about. Hao Youqian probably wants to die now."

Chen Yang squinted his eyes and smiled: "Hao Youqian asked you to ask me to persuade Hao Wei to work in his jewelry company?"

Chen Zhen nodded, "That's right, that good friend of yours is really not a fuel-saving lamp. If you don't sit on the throne of the 'Jewelry King' of the East China Sea, you have to become a lawyer. Hao Youqian managed to win it with a narrow escape."

"This kid is unwilling to take over the jewelry kingdom. Do you think he can stop being frowning?"

Chen Yang and Hao Wei were classmates from elementary school to university. They were famous during their time at Qinghua University, but it was not a good reputation. They were known as the "Two Cheats of Qinghua University". One could make the professor faint in philosophy class, and the other

He could scold his rival in love until he vomited blood. Moreover, the two of them had a surprisingly good mentality. The old professor was so angry that his face turned red with anger and his pupils dilated. Chen Yang could even ask with a smile: "Professor, why are you blushing?" Then.

He asked himself and said, "Oh, I know." Pointing to the girl in the front row, he said, "Professor, did you see that female classmate was shy about the rough mountains?" The old professor made a plop and fainted.

land.

Compared to Chen Yang, Hao Wei did not give in too much. He cursed with his love rival for two hours, setting a record for the longest scolding in Qinghua history. Everyone in Qinghua knew about that unprecedented scolding.

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At first, the boy scolded him very vigorously, and Hao Wei said: "Wait here for a while, and you are not allowed to leave." The boy thought that Hao Wei was going to fight with the guy, so he became a little timid. He wanted to run away, but he had a crush on him.

There was a girl beside me, but I didn't want to lose my manliness. I stood there and waited.

Five minutes later, Hao Wei moved a stool and held a tea cup in his hand. After Hao Wei sat down, he took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "I think we were talking about your mother just now, let's continue." The boy was so angry.

Smoke was coming out from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. He eventually vomited blood and was sent to the hospital.

But don't think that Chen Yang and Hao Wei are just two scoundrels. In the National College Debate in their junior year, the two represented Qinghua University and silenced the talented people from Tianda University in the finals.

It was that year that Qinghua students finally put aside their old resentment and changed the phrase "Qinghua Double Sword" to "Qinghua Double Sword".

After the two graduated from college, Chen Yang chose to enter his family's business, while Hao Wei only wanted to be a lawyer. He allowed his father, Hao Youqian, to use coercion and inducement, but he has not compromised at all until now.

"A-Zhen, don't worry so much. It's useless. Hao Wei's urinary nature makes it useless for anyone to persuade him. That kid's eloquence is no worse than mine. If I try to persuade him, he might be able to persuade him in turn.

I was incited to rebel, and I abandoned my family property and went out wandering around with him, and you can’t even cry.”

Chen Zhen frowned and said, "Ahem, forget it, don't try to persuade me."

Chen Yang put out his cigarette butt and said seriously: "Dad, have you ever thought about the expansion of Yuanyang?"

Chen Zhen frowned and said, "You think I don't want to? As a private enterprise, it is the pinnacle of our ocean shipping business to be like this."

Chen Yang continued: "That's why we need to transform."

"Transformation"? Chen Zhen stared at his son, "Do you think I haven't thought about it? Our family has been making a living at sea for generations, and everything at sea is very familiar. If you suddenly invest in an unfamiliar industry, the risk is huge.

Unpredictable”.

Chen Zhen sighed and said: "It's not that I'm timid, it's that times have changed. In the past twenty or thirty years, in those years, all order was the shackles of progress. Everyone was full of optimism and confidence in betraying the status quo.

, even losers are still so charming, but now, in the past few years, I have vaguely felt that such an era no longer exists, and the risks of blind expansion far outweigh the benefits."①

Chen Yang nodded, "Indeed, the Greek mythical 'Birth of the Gods' no longer appears, heroes everywhere are mortal, business returns to its secular roots, institutional breakthroughs decline dramatically, model innovation, capital-driven and legal norms gradually

It has become the main axis of business operations. In a sense, the 'art era' of sudden changes in sensibility is over, and the twilight of the gods and the rational 'scientific era' have arrived." ②

"However, it is precisely because of this that we demand change, and in this change, we have a huge advantage, because compared to ordinary people, we have capital, connections, and experience. Mortals can become gods. We have already

Those who stand at the top are more likely to become the masters, I have this confidence."
To be continued...